Steam fan drier



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STEAM FAN DRIER Filed Jan. 1928 I wire at the outer opening of the tube 42.

7 interior of tne casing 1 0 and the fan blades 14.

The hook '50 of a dress hanger 52 is adapted to be placed in'the ring 48 and a pull of the dress hanger will, by tension on the wire 46, raise the weight 44. WVhen the lower hem or edge of the dress is mounted in the clamps 2426, the weight 44 will act to support the dress in an upright position over the opening of the nozzle 12. A screen or the like 60 is placed across the upper opening of this spout'12 so as to eliminate any possibilities of the dress being accidentally dropped into the device. 7

'Mounted adjacent the. lower forward end of the casing 10 is a steam pipe 62 terminating in a nozzle 64 controlled by means of a valve. 66. The nozzle 64 is swivelly mounted in'the end of the pipe 62 and is provided with an adjacent handle 68 whereby the direction of the stream of steam from the nozzle 64 may bechanged with respecttothe In completing the operation of cleaning and dyeing a dress or other garment, aver'y large percentage of hand-finishing can he 1 eliminated by the use of this apparatus. The

garment is simply placed 'on the hanger 52 and hung in the ring 48. The bottom is then fastened with the catches '26 afterwhich steam from the nozzle 64' is allowed to enter thecasing 10 for oneor two seconds by manipulation of the valve 66. This is done 7 while the fan is not running after which the in the casing, a motorfor rotating the-blades,

steam is cut off, the'current applied to the -motor 16, and the fan will then complete the operation. Dresses from six inches long or even shorter up to approximately six feet in length can bereadily handled with this machine as it automatically adjusts :itself to spring surrounding the circumference of the spout and positioned against the movable 7 arms of all of said clamps.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signa- V tures.

the height of the garment'by means ,ofthe I weight 44.

7 We. are aware that many changes may be made and numerous details of construction varied throughout a wide range without departing from the principles of this invention, and we therefore do not purpose to limit the patent granted herein otherwisethanas necessitated by the prior art.

We clalm as our invention: A fan dIIQDCOlHPl'lSlIlg acasing, fan'blades a spout extending from the casing, and means for supporting a-garment atthe end of said spout, said means comprising a'support andtension means in the support, for automatically maintaining the garment in an upright position, said tension means comprising a weight slidable in the support, a supporting wire for the weight andmeans at the further end of said supporting wire for'attaching a garment thereto, and means ad-' jacent the upperend oflthe spout for clamping the lower edge of the garment, saidmeans comprising manually operated spring clamps,

and a single spring for theclamps, said; 

